TCP: Shrek the Halls

For this week's Family Christmas theme in Tuesday Couch Potatoes, I choose Shrek The Halls. I know that this is not really a full-length movie, but it was a Christmas Special featuring Shrek with Fiona and their babies and friends celebrating the Yuletide Season. (TV-Movie or short-movie from a tv channel in the U.S.)

The story is about Shrek quietly living in the swamp with his family when the Christmas season arrives. Under Donkey's urging, Shrek reluctantly promises Princess Fiona a special Christmas surprise. Unknown to Donkey, this is Shrek's first Christmas, because "ogres don't celebrate anything."

So Shrek goes to the local bookstore to try to find a present for Fiona, but since he doesn't know what Christmas is all about, the shopkeeper gives Shrek a copy of Christmas For Village Idiots, a step-by-step guide to celebrating the holiday.

Shrek proceeds to follow the book's advice by decorating the house and getting a tree so he can spend a quiet Christmas Eve with his family, but Donkey brings the entire "family" to the swamp, ruining Shrek's plans.

I specifically love the part when Donkey realized that Shrek is going to great lengths to celebrate Christmas for the first time and then he said,

"'Christmas ain't Christmas until somebody cries', and that's usually me."

This is my share for this week 's Tuesday Couch Potatoes